American Desert
By: Percival Everett
4.71
Format: 595 pages, Hardcover
Part parable, part fantasy novel, part laugh-out-loud satire, American Desertis the story of Theodo…
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1. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
2. Get in Trouble
By: Kelly Link
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” and by… read more
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- speculative fiction
- fantasy
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"Sometimes a friendship is more like a war."-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb."-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"The Wizard of Oz was a humbug. He's not great and powerful. He just pretends to be great and powerful. The Wicked Witch of the West is greater and powerfuller. She's got flying monkeys. She's like a …"-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
"Picture the lobby of a hotel. [...] Now fill up the lobby with dentists and superheroes. Men and women, oral surgeons, eighth-dimensional entities, mutants, and freaks who want to save your teeth, sa…"-Kelly Link, Get in Trouble
3. The Monsters of Templeton
By: Lauren Groff
4.50
Format: 122 pages, Hardcover
"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced i… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
4. American Desert
By: Percival Everett
4.71
Format: 595 pages, Hardcover
Part parable, part fantasy novel, part laugh-out-loud satire, American Desertis the story of Theodo… read more
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- american
- humor
- fiction
- 21st century
- novels
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
5. Big Machine
By: Victor LaValle
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fiendishly imaginative comic novel about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us. Ricky… read more
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- fantasy
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6. Without Blood
By: Alessandro Baricco
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
After her father and brother are brutally murdered, 4 year old Nina is left for dead in the family … read more
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- novels
- fiction
7. The Tattoo Murder Case
By: Akimitsu Takagi , Deborah Boliver Boehm
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a … read more
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- fiction
8. The Glass Rainbow (Dave Robicheaux, #18)
By: James Lee Burke
4.48
Format: None pages, Hardcover
James Lee Burke's eagerly awaited new novel finds Detective Dave Robicheaux back in New Iberia, Lou… read more
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10. Manhattan Transfer
By: John Dos Passos
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transferis an "expressionistic … read more
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11. Masters of Atlantis
By: Charles Portis
4.33
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
1917 France, Lamar Jimmerson finds a little book of Atlantean puzzles, Egyptian riddles, alchemical… read more
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12. Pinball, 1973 (The Rat, #2)
By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The plot centers on the narrator's brief but intense obsession with pinball, his life as a freelanc… read more
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13. Four Past Midnight: The Sun Dog
By: Stephen King , Tim Sample
4.11
Format: 14 pages, Audio CD
In "The Sun Dog," the concluding novella in Stephen King's best-selling "Four Past Midnight," the s… read more
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14. Mr Gwyn
By: Alessandro Baricco
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jasper Gwyn e uno scrittore. Vive a Londra e verosimilmente e un uomo che ama la vita. Tutt'a un tr… read more
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15. Beautyland
By: Marie-Helene Bertino
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more
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16. Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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- fiction
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
17. Sonic Life: A Memoir
By: Thurston Moore
3.81
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more
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- 21st century
18. On Women
By: Susan Sontag
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on ag… read more
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"Dividing time into Past, Present, and Future suggests that reality is distributed equally among three parts, but in fact the past is the most real of all. The future is, inevitably, an accumulation o…"-Susan Sontag, On Women
19. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
20. The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1)
By: Moses Ose Utomi
4.21
Format: 87 pages, Hardcover
Moses Ose Utomi's debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy’s epic quest to bring wate… read more
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21. Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)
By: Dan Ozzi
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well tol… read more
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